I’m Leo Sadovy, responsible for Performance Management solutions marketing at SAS. As a former Vice President of Finance with 25+ years of management experience at Fortune 50 companies, I want to explore with you some of the timeless lessons learned (many the hard way) and insights applied in the business arena over the past three or four decades. Looking beyond passing fads and the latest trends, this blog will focus on those fundamental management principles which have stood the test of time.

Leo Sadovy handles marketing for Performance Management at SAS. Before joining SAS, he spent seven years as Vice-President of Finance for Business Operations for a North American division of Fujitsu, managing a team focused on commercial operations, customer and alliance partnerships, strategic planning, process management, and continuous improvement. During his 13-year tenure at Fujitsu, Leo developed and implemented the ROI model and processes used in all internal investment decisions—and also held senior management positions in finance and marketing.

Prior to Fujitsu, Sadovy was with Digital Equipment Corporation for eight years in sales and financial management. He started his management career in laser optics fabrication for Spectra-Physics and later moved into a finance position at the General Dynamics F-16 fighter plant in Fort Worth, Texas.

“I have read the books, followed the trends , seen the fads come and go, lived through four major recessions beginning with the Arab oil embargo of ’73-’74, listened to the consultants, watched the hype and observed the manic greed/fear-driven cycles come and go for over thirty years now. Some, like Drucker, are timeless; some, like Total Quality, have had more limited success, and some, who shall remain nameless, were nothing more than consulting fees wrapped in buzz-words. Changes in our culture, the media and technology have given rise to new opportunities (Drucker is not the end of business history), but through it all certain fundamentals of management remain constant. Too much of what passes for management science today is too clever by half. Each new generation must master the basics of managing the primary resources of people, technology, and money in order to create value. The purpose of this blog is to explore those fundamental components of value creation as they apply to us here at the start of the new millennium.”

He has an MBA in Finance and a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing. He and his wife Ellen live in North Carolina with their three teenagers, and among his unique life experiences he can count a run for U.S. Congress and a singing performance at Carnegie Hall.